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Making Use of Poems to Teach English
(2012-02)This study was motivated by the fact that there is a tendency to see poetry as being remote from language teaching contexts. Thinking that this is partly because of the lack of training in teaching literature given to ... -
Identifying Preposition Errors of Turkish EFL Students
(International Association of Research in Foreign Language Education and Applied Linguistics, 2014)The purpose of this study is to find out to what extent Turkish EFL students are successful in the use of prepositions, and how much impact their mother tongue has on their errors. In order to achieve this aim, 30 students ... -
Resistance to sexist medical community with semiotic language in Augustine (Big Hysteria)
(2015)Set in the late nineteenth- century, Anna Furse’s play, Augustine (Big Hysteria) rewrites the real life woman, Augustine’s story, who was accused of madness, to demonstrate how the phallocentric medical community promotes ... -
Towards Remembering The Sufi Philosophy: Deconstruction of Boundary Oppositions in Doris Lessing's Briefing for A Descent Into Hell
(2016)The aim of this article is to investigate how in her novel, Briefing for a Descent into Hell, Doris Lessing deconstructs binary oppositions. In the novel, it is argued that the previous descenders of God are sent to earth ... -
Violence and melancholia: The story of melancholic “Butterfly” generation
(2016)In his work entitled “Mercury fur”, Philip Ridley imagines a post–apocalyptic capitalist society plagued by the butterflies, multi-colored drugs, which induce memory loss and social collapse, particularly in younger ... -
English Language Teacher Knowledge and the Classroom Practices
(2016-10)This paper previews the research about teacher knowledge and cognition among English Language Teachers and presents a pilot study resting upon the assumption that a gap between teacher professional knowledge and classroom ... -
Professionalism and Teacher Agencies
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Student teachers’ perspectives on teaching profession out of a multigrade classroom site visitation
(2017)Multigrade classrooms, places where students of different grades are taught together, have been used throughout the world for two main purposes: to solve the problems of uneven student enrolment as well as the insufficient ... -
The Impact of Reflective Practices of English Language Teachers on the Development of A Sense of Agency
(2018-10)Language teaching has undergone many changes for several decades and is still changing within this complex dynamic system. Teaching is recognized as both individually practised and socially shaped phenomenon with lots of ... -
Spaces of memory and memories of space in Alaa al-Aswany's The Yacoubian Building and Elif Shafak's The Flea Palace
(Springer, Van Godewıjckstraat 30, 3311 GZ Dodredht, Netherlands, 2019-12)Alaa al-Aswany's The Yacoubian Building and Elif Shafak's The Flea Palace emerge as microcosmic representations of contemporary Egypt and Turkey, respectively, through their focus on apartment buildings and their residents. ...